08 July 2008

Superstar Treatment

Jonathan Frieden throws a nation's worth of legal blogging into Blawg Review #167 this week at his E-Commerce Law blog. Frieden surveys every state in the union (including Canada, the 51st) and highlights a legal blogging "star" from each. All are worthy selections. Particular highlights include a Virginian with expertise in the estate planning concerns relating to cryogenic preservation, a Rhode Islander who's suspended blogging in favor of a run for public office, and a Californian whose single-name recognition ranks him amongst the glitterati.

Jeffrey Mehalic will host Blawg Review #168 next week at his West Virginia Business Litigation blog. Hopefully, he'll carry on this week's theme for a bit and give us some hint as to where he's writing from.

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About Me

I am presently corporate counsel for Accela, Inc., a software company headquartered in San Ramon, California and am a member of both the Oregon and California State Bars. More detailed professional information is available at my LinkedIn profile.

I have been blogging at Infamy or Praise since early 2005. From 2006 to 2009, I served as a "Sherpa" at Blawg Review, the weekly carnival of legal blogging; I have also hosted (or co-hosted) six editions of Blawg Review, the first four of which were awarded a "Blawg Review of the Year" award. I formerly was a co-blogger at Unsilent Partners. I'm on Twitter as "colinsamuels".

I am the author of "Humanizing the Profession: Lawyers Find Their Public Voices Through Blogging" (11 Nexus L. J. 89 (2006)) and a contributing author to "Blogging and Other Social Media" (Gower Publishing Limited, 2008) and "Legal Profession: Modern Approach" (The Icfai University Press, 2008).

None of the foregoing blogging, tweeting, or personal writing necessarily represents the views of my employer; responsibility for these is entirely mine.